Appropriate Speech
Cold day
What is Beginning Speech Proficiency
This teaching practice ensures students can both hear AND see what they need to do
What is oral directions accompanied by written words
Using hands, facial expressions, and movement to help explain what you're saying
What are Gestures and body language?
How you greet someone in Danish
What is Hej?
The day is cold and there is snow.
What is Early Intermediate Speech Proficiency
This instructional tool helps students who are visual learners understand abstract concepts
What are Diagrams (or visual aids)?
Looking at content before diving deep into it
What is Previewing material?
Danish food culture values this over complexity and elaborate preparation
What are simple foods?
The day is very cold and heavy snow is falling
What is Intermediate Speech Proficiency
This is what we call the teaching technique of presenting information in sequential, digestible chunks
What is Chunking or scaffolding?
These tools make learning more engaging through sight, sound, and interaction
What are Multimedia technologies?
In Danish daycare, this skill is emphasized over academics
What are Social skills?
It is a cold, winter day and it is snowing more heavily that usual.
What is Advanced Speech Proficiency
All four teaching strategies work together to achieve this overall goal
What is Effective communication and student success?
Sentence strips and graphic organizers both help students do this with information
What is Organize and structure their thinking?
This Danish cultural characteristic contrasts with cultures that value humility and downplaying success
What is Not being modest?
The unusually heavy snow on the day the story takes place causes a number of problems for the characters.
What is Transitional Speech Proficiency
This is the ultimate goal of breaking complex ideas into smaller parts
What is Student understanding or comprehension?
All these strategies together create this kind of learning environment
What is Inclusive/accessible/differentiated?
These two educational priorities define early childhood and formal schooling in Denmark
What are Social skills and problem solving?